From Net Impact Austin - This month we're hosting Melissa Miller, standing board President of TREIA (Texas Renewable Energy Industry Alliance) and wind power developer, who will speak with us about the current wind power climate in Texas and how the PTC extension has spurred development of...
From the Austin Zero Waste Alliance - Please join AZWA for it's Earth Month meeting to discuss Zero Waste strategies and plan for civic actions around keeping residential curbside composting programs alive through the Austin City Council budget process.
From the Austin EcoNetwork, University of Texas, and National Parks Conservation Association - Come out to WCH 1.120 on the University of Texas campus on Tuesday, April 26th at 7pm for a free screening of the National Park Service's 100th Anniversary documentary entitled "The National...
Interested in upgrading your industrial facilities with energy/water efficiency and distributed generation technologies but lack the needed capital? Learn how to retrofit and save with Industrial PACE 101 by the Texas PACE Authority. PACE financing may be used to pay for permanent improvements to the...
The City of Austin Joint Sustainability Committee is responsible for advising Austin City Council on implementation of the Climate Protection Plan developed by residents and city employees in 2014. This committee is comprised of members of 12 different city boards that all deal with sustainability...
Book talk and signing with Book People Austin is generally depicted as one of the great urban success stories of the past half century - a place that has grown enormously through "creative class" strategies that emphasize diversity and environmental consciousness. Eliot Tretter's book reinterprets...
Join us for this week’s edition of “Shades of Green”, Austin’s only live, green talk radio program, on KOOP 91.7FM and streaming online! This week we'll be talking about bikes, as well as a community effort to get the Bicycle Master Plan fully funded.
From the Sustainable Food Center - Join Kate Grimes, horticulturalist with the Lady bird Wildflower Center, for a lesson on cultivating, harvesting and storing medicinal herbs, from sage and lavender to Mexican mint marigold. The class will focus on herbs best suited to Central Texas.
From the Talk Green to Me Book Club - Picking up where last month's book left off, Jonathan Bloom discusses the food waste phenomenon occurring within our culture and what we can do to stop it! This month we are reading "American Wasteland: How America...
From the National Wildlife Federation - Join the National Wildlife Federation and Ranger Rick for our fun spring family event this weekend at the Discovery Hill Outdoor Learning Center (behind the Austin ISD Science and Health Resource Center). Live music, Ranger Rick, face painting, scavenger hunts, lady...
